Empire season 2 episode 1 ddot4/1/2024 ![]() ![]() While SSD personnel dutifully attempted to fulfil their charge by implementing a series of screening measures at both the point of recruitment in ‘the bush’ and at Diamang’s headquarters in Dundo, production targets and the small labour pool in the scarcely populated region regularly prompted senior company officials to compel the SSD to clear physically suspect recruits for mine service. In practice, though, the system did not always work this way. In theory, the diamond enterprise’s Serviços de Saúde da Diamang, or SSD (Health Services Division), was responsible for supplying mine managers with an African labour force comprised of healthy workers, that is workers capable of carrying out the manual tasks they would be assigned. Yet, upon closer examination, a much more complex scenario is revealed. However, the Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, or Diamang, professed to be this possibly unique entity, from the commencement of mining in 1917 to Angolan independence in 1975. At first glance, a colonial-era concessionary company that cared for the health of its African workers appears to be oxymoronic. ![]()
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